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In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.

The American night heron. See under Night.

An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished. Ford.

The quagga.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.

See Quitch grass.

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.

Quackery. Carlyle.

To suffocate; to choke. [Prov. Eng.]

is skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

A quadrat.

Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. Chaucer.

The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.